An amazing story happened to the to the Sklarz family. Seven years ago, Mr. Yossi Sklarz’s thirteen-year-old son was crossing Route 59 a little after 8pm when he was hit by a driver who did not have their headlights on. His son went flying forty feet in the air and landed directly on his skull. The doctors said there is no chance of survival.
After a risky operation, the boy was left in a coma for 18 months. At one point, the doctor came into the room, put his hand on the father and said, “You should treat your son like a 95-year-old man. He is done. He will not make it more than a couple of days. Just try to keep him comfortable.”
Disagreeing with the Doctor
Yossi looked at the doctor and said, “Can we please have this conversation outside the room, not in front of my son, the patient.” The doctor looks at the father with a smile and says, “Your son cannot hear anything. There is no reason for us to go outside.”
Mr. Sklarz looked at the doctor, with complete emunah in Hashem, the true healer of the sick, and says, “I will not tell you how to practice medicine, you do not tell me how to practice my faith.”
Fast forward four years after the accident, Yossi brings his son, who Baruch Hashem has had a major recovery, to the hospital for testing. The doctor from years earlier, now promoted to an even more senior position, walks in with the interns.
“This Boy is a Miracle”
He just says to the people in the room, “This boy is a miracle. I’m humbled to say, I stand corrected, this boy is a pure living miracle. Faith works. Yossi was right when he said, ‘I won’t tell you how to practice medicine, you do not tell me how to practice faith.’ Wow. Yes, there is an Aibishter—One Above in this world.”
Reprinted from the Parashat 5784 email of Jack E. Rahmey, based on the Torah teachings of Rabbi Amram Sananes.
